Shep, you're missing the point. The density of riders per square metre of road in a bus is far, far greater than the density of riders per square metre of road in individual cars. If we had better public transit, then people would be more willing to use it, and there would be fewer cars on the road, hence fewer traffic problems.MKSheppard wrote:Except no one wants to ride public transportation in the United States, especially buses? And you've never seen the traffic jam a single bus causes when it stops in the middle of a busy intersection to let off some fucknuts, and cuts off 1/2 of the capacity of that road...DURING RUSH HOUR.
Buses pack lots of riders into a small space, they stay in the right-hand lane, and they generally obey the rules of the road. That's a lot more than you can say for cars.
I've been driving for 15 years, and buses are not a problem on the road in my experience. The biggest problem on the road is automobile congestion due to sheer numbers and asshole drivers who do things like weaving in and out of lanes, slowing down to look at accidents, and driving into an intersection when traffic is already backed up into it on the other side, so that when the light goes red they're still sitting in the intersection and blocking traffic both ways (we call this lovely phenomenon "gridlock").
As for your objection that nobody takes public transit in North America, that's simply not true. Public transit is very efficient and useful in many situations, especially in urban centres. I use it myself to go downtown rather than driving, because parking downtown is shit. If public transit were made cheaper and faster, even more people would use it.
